Sherman Wilcox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sherman Wilcox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sherman |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilcox |
| SIGNATURE | WILCOX S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar
Construction Grammar is one of the fastest-growing branches of functional syntax. Bringing together an international team of scholars, this handbook provides a complete overview of the current issues and applications in this approach. Divided into six thematic parts, it covers the fundamental notions of Construction Grammar, its conceptual origins and the basic ideas that unite its various branches, its solid empirical grounding and affinities wi…
List constructions in two signed languages
This paper examines how signers make lists. One way is to use the fingers on the signer’s nondominant hand to enumerate items on a list. The signer points to these list-fingers with the dominant hand. Previous analyses considered lists to be nondominant, one-handed signs, and thus were called list buoys because the nondominant hand often remains in place during the production of the list. The pointing hand was largely ignored as a nonlinguistic g…
Exerting control
Signed languages employ finely articulated facial and head displays to express grammatical meanings such as mood and modality, complex propositions (conditionals, causal relations, complementation), information structure (topic, focus), assertions, content and yes/no questions, imperatives, and miratives. In this paper we examine two facial displays: an upper face display in which the eyebrows are pulled together called brow furrow, and a lower f…
Evidentiality and Information Source in Signed Languages
This chapter examines evidentiality in signed languages. Data comes primarily from three signed languages—American Sign Language (ASL), Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), and Catalan Sign Language (LSC). The relationship between evidentiality, epistemic modality, and mirativity is examined across the expression of perceptual information as an evidential source, inference, and reported speech. It is suggested that evidentiality relies on simulation…
Speech-gesture constructions in cognitive grammar
The current study uses principles from Cognitive Grammar to better account for the symbolic integration of gesture and speech. Drawing on data collected from language use, we examine the use of two attention-directing strategies that are expressed through gesture, beats and pointing. It has been claimed that beats convey no semantic information. We propose that beat gestures are symbolic structures. It has also been noted that beats are often ove…
Pointing and placing
Grounding refers to expressions that establish a connection between the ground and the content evoked by a nominal or finite clause. In this paper we report on two grammatical implementations of nominal grounding in Argentine Sign Language: pointing and placing. For pointing constructions, we also examine distal-proximal pointing and directive force. We introduce the concept of placing, in which a sign is produced at a specific meaningful locatio…
Routes From Gesture to Language
Neste artigo é explorado o papel dos gestos no desenvolvimento das línguas de sinais. Usando dados da Língua Americana de Sinais (ASL), Língua de Sinais Catalã (CSL), Língua de Sinais Francesa (FSL) e Língua Italiana de Sinais (ISL), assim como fontes históricas que descrevem gestos na região mediterrânea, demonstro que o gesto entra no sistema lingüístico através de, pelo menos, dois caminhos. Pelo primeiro, os gestos servem como fonte de morfem…
Constructing signs
This paper presents a usage-based, Cognitive Grammar analysis of Place as a symbolic structure in signed languages. We suggest that many signs are better viewed as constructions in which schematic or specific formal properties are extracted from usage events alongside specific or schematic meaning. We argue that pointing signs are complex constructions composed of a pointing device and a Place, each of which are symbolic structures having form an…
Cognitive iconicity
Adopting the framework of cognitive grammar, I define cognitive iconicity as a special case in which the phonological and the semantic poles of a symbolic structure reside in the same region of conceptual space. One reason for the richness of iconic representation present in signed languages is that the phonological pole of signs involves objects moving in space as viewed from a certain vantage point: hands moving in space as viewed by the signer…
Introduction
William C. Stokoe (July 21, 1919April 4, 2000) [Commemorative essay]
Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics
Not from Jove's brow
The Phonetics of Fingerspelling
Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply]
The Search for the Empty Cup Continues
Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply]
Constructing signs
This paper presents a usage-based, Cognitive Grammar analysis of Place as a symbolic structure in signed languages. We suggest that many signs are better viewed as constructions in which schematic or specific formal properties are extracted from usage events alongside specific or schematic meaning. We argue that pointing signs are complex constructions composed of a pointing device and a Place, each of which are symbolic structures having form an…
Speech-gesture constructions in cognitive grammar
The current study uses principles from Cognitive Grammar to better account for the symbolic integration of gesture and speech. Drawing on data collected from language use, we examine the use of two attention-directing strategies that are expressed through gesture, beats and pointing. It has been claimed that beats convey no semantic information. We propose that beat gestures are symbolic structures. It has also been noted that beats are often ove…
Routes From Gesture to Language
Neste artigo é explorado o papel dos gestos no desenvolvimento das línguas de sinais. Usando dados da Língua Americana de Sinais (ASL), Língua de Sinais Catalã (CSL), Língua de Sinais Francesa (FSL) e Língua Italiana de Sinais (ISL), assim como fontes históricas que descrevem gestos na região mediterrânea, demonstro que o gesto entra no sistema lingüístico através de, pelo menos, dois caminhos. Pelo primeiro, os gestos servem como fonte de morfem…
Not from Jove's brow
Exerting control
Signed languages employ finely articulated facial and head displays to express grammatical meanings such as mood and modality, complex propositions (conditionals, causal relations, complementation), information structure (topic, focus), assertions, content and yes/no questions, imperatives, and miratives. In this paper we examine two facial displays: an upper face display in which the eyebrows are pulled together called brow furrow, and a lower f…
Pointing and placing
Grounding refers to expressions that establish a connection between the ground and the content evoked by a nominal or finite clause. In this paper we report on two grammatical implementations of nominal grounding in Argentine Sign Language: pointing and placing. For pointing constructions, we also examine distal-proximal pointing and directive force. We introduce the concept of placing, in which a sign is produced at a specific meaningful locatio…
The Search for the Empty Cup Continues
The Search for the Empty Cup Continues
Primate Calls, Human Language, and Nonverbal Communication [and Comments and Reply]
The Phonetics of Fingerspelling
Not from Jove's brow
Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics
William C. Stokoe (July 21, 1919April 4, 2000) [Commemorative essay]
Cognitive iconicity
Adopting the framework of cognitive grammar, I define cognitive iconicity as a special case in which the phonological and the semantic poles of a symbolic structure reside in the same region of conceptual space. One reason for the richness of iconic representation present in signed languages is that the phonological pole of signs involves objects moving in space as viewed from a certain vantage point: hands moving in space as viewed by the signer…
Introduction
Constructing signs
This paper presents a usage-based, Cognitive Grammar analysis of Place as a symbolic structure in signed languages. We suggest that many signs are better viewed as constructions in which schematic or specific formal properties are extracted from usage events alongside specific or schematic meaning. We argue that pointing signs are complex constructions composed of a pointing device and a Place, each of which are symbolic structures having form an…
Routes From Gesture to Language
Neste artigo é explorado o papel dos gestos no desenvolvimento das línguas de sinais. Usando dados da Língua Americana de Sinais (ASL), Língua de Sinais Catalã (CSL), Língua de Sinais Francesa (FSL) e Língua Italiana de Sinais (ISL), assim como fontes históricas que descrevem gestos na região mediterrânea, demonstro que o gesto entra no sistema lingüístico através de, pelo menos, dois caminhos. Pelo primeiro, os gestos servem como fonte de morfem…
Evidentiality and Information Source in Signed Languages
This chapter examines evidentiality in signed languages. Data comes primarily from three signed languages—American Sign Language (ASL), Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), and Catalan Sign Language (LSC). The relationship between evidentiality, epistemic modality, and mirativity is examined across the expression of perceptual information as an evidential source, inference, and reported speech. It is suggested that evidentiality relies on simulation…
Speech-gesture constructions in cognitive grammar
The current study uses principles from Cognitive Grammar to better account for the symbolic integration of gesture and speech. Drawing on data collected from language use, we examine the use of two attention-directing strategies that are expressed through gesture, beats and pointing. It has been claimed that beats convey no semantic information. We propose that beat gestures are symbolic structures. It has also been noted that beats are often ove…
Pointing and placing
Grounding refers to expressions that establish a connection between the ground and the content evoked by a nominal or finite clause. In this paper we report on two grammatical implementations of nominal grounding in Argentine Sign Language: pointing and placing. For pointing constructions, we also examine distal-proximal pointing and directive force. We introduce the concept of placing, in which a sign is produced at a specific meaningful locatio…
Exerting control
Signed languages employ finely articulated facial and head displays to express grammatical meanings such as mood and modality, complex propositions (conditionals, causal relations, complementation), information structure (topic, focus), assertions, content and yes/no questions, imperatives, and miratives. In this paper we examine two facial displays: an upper face display in which the eyebrows are pulled together called brow furrow, and a lower f…
List constructions in two signed languages
This paper examines how signers make lists. One way is to use the fingers on the signer’s nondominant hand to enumerate items on a list. The signer points to these list-fingers with the dominant hand. Previous analyses considered lists to be nondominant, one-handed signs, and thus were called list buoys because the nondominant hand often remains in place during the production of the list. The pointing hand was largely ignored as a nonlinguistic g…
The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar
Construction Grammar is one of the fastest-growing branches of functional syntax. Bringing together an international team of scholars, this handbook provides a complete overview of the current issues and applications in this approach. Divided into six thematic parts, it covers the fundamental notions of Construction Grammar, its conceptual origins and the basic ideas that unite its various branches, its solid empirical grounding and affinities wi…
Linguistics (15 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (10 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Cognitive linguistics (5 works)